for baritone and orchestra
(1995)
Duration: 7'
2.3(EHn).3(BCl).3(Cbn), 4.2.3.1, 2Perc, Hp, BarSolo, Strings
This work is in manuscript.
This is an early work, quite influenced by mid-20th century American Romanticism. In the Valley of the Elwy is among my favorite poems by one of my "desert-island" bards, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Since discovering his poems in college, I've penned and sketched several settings of his works, of which this is the largest and most successful.